Ymarsakar asks why my blog refuses to accept any and all comments featuring the word “socialism.”
Well, I certainly had no idea! It was never my intent! I wasn’t even there! Blame it on Wordpress! Blame it on….Cialis.
Cialis? The erectile dysfunction drug? Whatever does being “ready when the moment is right” have to do with socialism—or socialists, apparently another word inadvertently banned from this site?
One could make an argument for some sort of link between the two: for an awfully long time, socialism has been waiting—and ready—for the moment that has somehow never quite come (and yet has seemed to socialists to be on its way), the moment that will prove once and for all that socialism is the superior method of running a country.
But no; the true connection is the fact that (as most of you may have figured out by now) the word “cialis” is embedded in the word “socialism.”
I currently have blocked about fifty drug names on this site; if I hadn’t done so, there might be upwards of a fifty or so pharmaceutical spam comments here a day. Cialis, of course, is one of them, and the unintended consequence of blocking Cialis is to block socialism.
So as an experiment, and in the interests of free speech (wouldn’t want to be accused by the Left of blocking that), I have temporarily and experimentally unblocked Cialis. Therefore you are free to discuss socialism and socialists to your hearts’ delight, without resorting to such ruses as soci@list.
And you’re free to discuss Cialis as well.
Previously a lifelong Democrat, born in New York and living in New England, surrounded by liberals on all sides, I've found myself slowly but surely
June 26th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
I’d like to discuss socialism but I’m waiting until the moment is right…. sometime in late 2008.
June 26th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
If I wanted socialism to be part of my life, I doubt you would want to be part of mine. I wonder if the same is true of Cialis?
June 26th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
Thanks for that good laugh!
June 26th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
Oh for the love of god! I enjoy your blog, love your insight, but for heaven’s sake…..it’s all predicated on “PC” drug interests? Keep blocking such nonsens neo…your’s is a site I visit daily to get a good dose of reality and common sense.
June 26th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
“But no; the true connection is the fact that (as most of you may have figured out by now) the word “cialis” is embedded in the word “socialism.”
Yes but the lliumaniti may have some role in this………..steve
June 26th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
What’s with the outdoor bathtubs in the Cialis commercials?
Some subtle message?
June 26th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
I wonder why I never have any spam with either Cialis nor socialism…I must be considered lost case…
June 26th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
Yes, but you see, its the rich white people who use Cialis so they can stick it to the brown peoples, the homeless and the racially disenfranchised.
June 26th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
If belief in Socialism persists for four hours or more, contact your doctor.
June 26th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
I’d love to hold forth on Socialism, but am enjoying too much the collapse of stupid hippie relics locallay, such as a retarded street fair that always attracted assorted leftist lowlifes, and Antioch College.
June 26th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
What about blocking the text string ” Cialis “? It would let socialism thru, but keep drug spam out. Some filters may not allow leading spaces, but even “Cialis ” might do the trick.
June 26th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Cappy:
“I’d love to hold forth on Socialism, but am enjoying too much the collapse of stupid hippie relics locallay…”
You’re lucky. My only hope is to have global warming get rid of them for me. Towards that end, I charcol barbeque all my meals no matter what the weather.
I got me the New Age variety of hippy, the worst.
June 26th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
gcotharn,
China’s believed in Socialism for decades…and their economy continues to grow…at an alarming rate!
Let’s hope they don’t seek treatment, or America will have to find another sugar daddy.
June 26th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
Any drug that advertises that ‘I’ should let my doctor know about liver problems…..sheesh, that’s why I have a doctor! No way should I need to alert him/her to such a condition….that’s why I pay him…..to find and know about such things!
June 26th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
communism let’s try that.
June 26th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
Funny post, Neo.
June 26th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
Gotta love her…who knows what topics will capture neo…..and then us….next! This blog is an adventure. And the trolls just add to the fun.
June 26th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
I buy the cheap charcoal too. The stuff you gotta repeatedly squirt gobs of lighter fluid on to get lit. Then its smokey as all get out.
June 26th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
Harry….hearing you my friend! My Weber is vital…and from a minimum of April to Oct…be it any kind of taters, green beans, cauliflower, asparagus, name it…if I can’t think of a way too cook it on the grill, hell, it won’t get cooked till the dead of winter, if then.
And even in winter, my grill is going…just not on a daily basis. 
June 26th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
All Im thinking about is carbon. Carbon, carbon, carbon, carbon, carbon.
Today, Im watching the thermometer. It never goes higher than 77. Somehow I feel Im not making an impact.
June 26th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
Can you find the crass commercialism (names of three ED meds) embedded in the following?
In the Primo Levi translations of If This is a Man and The Truce, he wrote that socialism without prison camps is possible and desirable, but that Nazism without concentration camps is unimaginable. Fascism created the literary Levi whose writing brilliance flowed via gravitas and eloquence.
June 27th, 2007 at 2:59 am
As if blogging wasn’t hard enough already…
June 27th, 2007 at 10:28 am
“You know, lately the strangest things have been going through my mind–’cause, I turned 40. And I guess I’m going through a life crisis or something, I don’t know, and I, uh, and I’m not worried about aging.
I’m not one of those characters, you know, I, uh, well, I’m balding slightly on top. I guess that’s the worst you can say about me. I, um, I think I’m going to get better as I get older, you know, I think I’m gonna be the, the balding, virile type, you know as opposed to say, the, um, distinguished gray, for instance.
You know, unless I’m neither of those two. Unless I’m one of those guys with saliva dribbling out of his mouth who wanders into a cafeteria with a shopping bag, screaming about socialism.”
June 27th, 2007 at 10:31 am
youtube.comSorry, it’s much better on video.
June 27th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
Cialis and Socialism: both propping up a good time by artificial means….
June 27th, 2007 at 4:52 pm
To avoid the problem, block ” cialis” rather than “cialis”?
June 27th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
Might I suggest Spam Karma 2. It is at http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/ and works quite well. While my site isn’t high traffic, it has stopped every spam since I installed it.
June 29th, 2007 at 12:29 am
A couple years ago a lady who works in a doctor’s office brought a whole big box of vendor loot with brand new drug names on it to pass out to the ladies at our writing group. Pens, note pads, post-its.
I think I still have some Cialis post-its.
I remember writing a note one day and thinking… I bet this drug is something really embarrassing.
November 29th, 2007 at 2:33 am
Hi, my name is disman-kl, i like your site and i ll be back
February 11th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
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